Void vs void

Post » Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:53 pm

I'm a little confused about the two different uses of void here.

Am I right that there is both the Void that is the emptiness outside of anupadomay or the godhead as well as the void that is sometimes used as a way to refer to ISNOT/padomay/sithis?

Specifically, in the amaranth threads, sithis is referred to as representing the void, and since amaranth involves completely leaving the godhead and sithis is a prime candidate I've taken this to mean the Void outside everything, not the void(padomay).

But is this accurate? Wouldn't sithis be the embodiment of the lower-case void, since it is the "soul of padomay"?

Nocturnal is also referred to as an aspect of the void, which void would that be? Part of me wants to say the upper-case Void, for the sake of making nocturnal cooler, but the other part doesn't understand how a part of the godhead could embody the place outside of the GH.

Could somebody set me straight on this?

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Post » Sat Aug 24, 2013 5:23 pm

"Anu and Padhome, stasis and change, both vast realms sitting in the void, they created it. Not vast, infinite, as the void was infinite. Imagine an infinity enclosed by another; you come away with a bubble. Now watch as the two bubbles touch. Their intersection is a perfect circle of pattern and possibility that we shall call the Aurbis. The Aurbis is the foundation of the Wheel."

"Outside the wheel is the void, bereft of anything. It cannot be named. If it has more aspects than stasis and change, they are outside of true language. Inside of the Wheel is the Aurbis, as I have explained."

"For ages the etada grew and shaped and destroyed each other and destroyed each other’s creations. Some were like Lorkhan and discovered the void outside of the Aurbis, though if some saw the Tower I do not know, but I know that, if they did, none held it in such high esteem. In any case, some of those that did see the void created its like inside the Aurbis, but each of these smaller voids sought each other out. Void shall follow void; the etada called it Oblivion. What was left of the Aurbis was solid change, otherwise known as magic. The etada called this Aetherius."

All quoted from http://www.imperial-library.info/content/vehks-teaching.

So yes. There are two kinds of void - the one outside and the one inside the Aurbis. But the latter resembles the former one.

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